CAD Software Hub – A Directory Built with Django, Htmx and Tailwind

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I built this directory website for CAD-related software as a side project, using HN's favorite web-dev stack: Django, Postgres, HTMX and Tailwind.Some of the problems I encountered while building it:1. hx-boost always messes up loading via links. I tried several methods to fix it, but finally decided to drop it altogether.2. Even for this very simple website, using Gunicorn with asgi and setting the workers to be more than one can consume quite a lot of memory (400-500 MB). Daphne is more efficient (~200 MB) though I can't control the number of workers.3. I have to deal with FOUC specifically for Firefox browsers. Chromium-based browsers don't have such a problem.Overall it is a quite easy a

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